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Hadoop QA commented on HADOOP-6208:
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+1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment
http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12421042/HADOOP-6208.patch
against trunk revision 820094.
+1 @author. The patch does not contain any @author tags.
+1 tests included. The patch appears to include 12 new or modified tests.
+1 javadoc. The javadoc tool did not generate any warning messages.
+1 javac. The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings.
+1 findbugs. The patch does not introduce any new Findbugs warnings.
+1 release audit. The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit
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+1 core tests. The patch passed core unit tests.
+1 contrib tests. The patch passed contrib unit tests.
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> Block loss in S3FS due to S3 inconsistency on file rename
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>
> Key: HADOOP-6208
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6208
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs/s3
> Affects Versions: 0.20.0, 0.20.1
> Environment: Ubuntu Linux 8.04 on EC2, Mac OS X 10.5, likely to affect any Hadoop
environment
> Reporter: Bradley Buda
> Assignee: Bradley Buda
> Attachments: HADOOP-6208.patch, S3FSConsistencyPollingTest.java, S3FSConsistencyTest.java
>
>
> Under certain S3 consistency scenarios, Hadoop's S3FileSystem can 'truncate' files, especially
when writing reduce outputs. We've noticed this at tracksimple where we use the S3FS as the
direct input and output of our MapReduce jobs. The symptom of this problem is a file in the
filesystem that is an exact multiple of the FS block size - exactly 32MB, 64MB, 96MB, etc.
in length.
> The issue appears to be caused by renaming a file that has recently been written, and
getting a stale INode read from S3. When a reducer is writing job output to the S3FS, the
normal series of S3 key writes for a 3-block file looks something like this:
> Task Output:
> 1) Write the first block (block_99)
> 2) Write an INode (/myjob/_temporary/_attempt_200907142159_0306_r_000133_0/part-00133.gz)
containing [block_99]
> 3) Write the second block (block_81)
> 4) Rewrite the INode with new contents [block_99, block_81]
> 5) Write the last block (block_-101)
> 6) Rewrite the INode with the final contents [block_99, block_81, block_-101]
> Copy Output to Final Location (ReduceTask#copyOutput):
> 1) Read the INode contents from /myjob/_temporary/_attempt_200907142159_0306_r_000133_0/part-00133.gz,
which gives [block_99, block_81, block_-101]
> 2) Write the data from #1 to the final location, /myjob/part-00133.gz
> 3) Delete the old INode
> The output file is truncated if S3 serves a stale copy of the temporary INode. In copyOutput,
step 1 above, it is possible for S3 to return a version of the temporary INode that contains
just [block_99, block_81]. In this case, we write this new data to the final output location,
and 'lose' block_-101 in the process. Since we then delete the temporary INode, we've lost
all references to the final block of this file and it's orphaned in the S3 bucket.
> This type of consistency error is infrequent but not impossible. We've observed these
failures about once a week for one of our large jobs which runs daily and has 200 reduce outputs;
so we're seeing an error rate of something like 0.07% per reduce.
> These kind of errors are generally difficult to handle in a system like S3. We have
a few ideas about how to fix this:
> 1) HACK! Sleep during S3OutputStream#close or #flush to wait for S3 to catch up and make
these less likely.
> 2) Poll for updated MD5 or INode data in Jets3tFileSystemStore#storeINode until S3 says
the INode contents are the same as our local copy. This could be a config option - "fs.s3.verifyInodeWrites"
or something like that.
> 3) Cache INode contents in-process, so we don't have to go back to S3 to ask for the
current version of an INode.
> 4) Only write INodes once, when the output stream is closed. This would basically make
S3OutputStream#flush() a no-op.
> 5) Modify the S3FS to somehow version INodes (unclear how we would do this, need some
design work).
> 6) Avoid using the S3FS for temporary task attempt files.
> 7) Avoid using the S3FS completely.
> We wanted to get some guidance from the community before we went down any of these paths.
Has anyone seen this issue? Any other suggested workarounds? We at tracksimple are willing
to invest some time in fixing this and (of course) contributing our fix back, but we wanted
to get an 'ack' from others before we try anything crazy :-).
> I've attached a test app if anyone wants to try and reproduce this themselves. It takes
a while to run (depending on the 'weather' in S3 right now), but should eventually detect
a consistency 'error' that manifests itself as a truncated file.
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